boîtier
\bwa.tje\
The verdict
“boîtier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,138. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,138
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coffret à plusieurs compartiments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boitier · boîtier · French
boîtier · rank #18,138 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,138
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bowling
Nearest frequency peer: bowling (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « boîtier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blood
blood
81,866 corpus weight
- bordée
bordée
81,865 corpus weight
- bowling
bowling
81,864 corpus weight
- boîtier
boîtier
81,863 corpus weight
- brousse
brousse
81,862 corpus weight
- brûlent
brûlent
81,861 corpus weight
What this shows « boîtier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boîtier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwa.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boîtier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around boîtier (IPA \bwa.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,138 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for boîtier, with forms such as "bboîtier", "boitier", and "botîier". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "botter", "bouvier", "bonnier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is boîtier, spelled B-O-Î-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Coffret à plusieurs compartiments.
- 2Cadran où sont logées toutes les pièces du mécanisme d’une montre.
- 3Enveloppe rigide protégeant un ou plusieurs composants et comportant des traversées pour le raccordement à l’extérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boîtier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le boîtier ouvert lui avait livré l’état désespérant d'un mécanisme hors d'usage : rouages encrassés, ressort cassé, cette montre était morte, non de maladie mais de vieillesse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboîtier
- boitier
- botîier
- boîiter
- boîteir
- boîtierr
- boîtire
- boîttier
- bîotier
- obîtier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boîtier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "boîtier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).